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Miss. METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 
. : BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS 
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT 
1917 
WE NOW HAVE 
IN THIRTY-FOUR NATIONS 
(OTHER THAN THE UNITED STATES) 

a PoC Ch a Ache Ce te ee ek et 442,765 High Schools and Colleges........... 106 
Native Ordained Pastors................. 1,283 Theological and Biblical Schools... .. . 36 
Native Teachers and other Workers... _.. 7,824 Primary and other Schools........... 2,853 

ji PEE SSIDIBTICS Be mete oe. A Ce OPS 890 Hospitals and Dispensaries........... 49 
ehurches-and~ Chapels. ..u7 ese a... 2,516 Property 94e-t tak Sel ae mean $14,323,842 

A Church becoming indigenous in all lands 
EFFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS—Totals for Five Years 
(In addition to present income) 
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: Raised From 

= Evangelistic Educational Medica! Total on Field Home Base 

; Property and Equipment. $4,978,079 —_ $7,066,978 $1,430,130 $13,475,187 $2,149,041 $11,326,146 
Maintenance.............. 2,959,531 3,386,918 703,124 7,049,573 1,368,825 5,680,748 
Endowments. et eh A AMO 4ST loll, 4,440,447 21,750 4,418,697 

JL OGRISY Mee Se he: $7,937,610 $14,894,343 $2,133,254 $24,965,207 $3,539,616 $21,425,591 
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The above summary includes only those items which, in the opinion of the men on the fields, 
are absolutely necessary to put the existing work on an efficiency basis. The amounts are to be 
invested over a period of five years. 

z The estimates have been carefully considered by the Finance Committees of the respective 

eas Missions and approved by their presiding Bishops. 

os Country-wide commissions were appointed to correlate all the askings of their particular 

as fields and the estimates have been revised and approved by these commissions. 

; IMPORTANT NOTE: The above estimates, which total $24,965,207, are exclusive of the 

needs for a Permanent Fund; for a Widows’ and Orphans’ Fund; fora Retired Missionaries’ Fund: 

= Me for adequate Endowments for Educational Institutions and Hospitals; for Rehabilitation Work in 

“3 Europe (concerning which no adequate figures can be given now); and are also exclusive of the 


_ present income which last year amounted to $1,933,256. 


iM OUR CHURCH IS DIRECTLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE EVANGELIZATION OF 
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EFFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS — Totals for the Five Years 


(in addition to present income) 


Raised From 
Evangelistic | Educational Medical Total on Field Home Base 
Property and Equipment. $588,910 $300,525 $16,300 $905,735 $36,975 $868,760 
Maintenance............ 291,360 164,510 43,920 499,790 19,015 480,775 
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Totals... 3a $880,270 $465,035 $60,220 $1,405,525 $55,590 $1,349,535 
Analysis of Above Requirements 
Property and Equipment 
EVANGELISTIC EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL 
47 churches and chapels 147 new school buildings 1 hospital and equipment 
79 parsonages Land for the above 3 dispensaries 


17 residences for French assistants 
39 missionary residences 


Land for above ° 
Maintenance 
228 native teachers 178 native teachers 


44 missionaries 
14 European assistants 


lleper home 


1 tubercular sanitarium 
Land for both 


Equipment for hospital 
already established 


6 missionary doctors 
(including 1 married doctor) 
6 missionary nurses 

2 native nurses 


AFRICA 
GENERAL SURVEY 


A continent: 6,000 miles north and south; 5,000 miles east and west 


PROBLEM: 


Give 80,000,000 pagan black people the Gospel, and thus protect them from the 
evils of advancing Eurcpean civilization. 


Save the continent from Mohammedanism which is now 40,000,060 strong. 
Its battle-cry is ‘‘Africa for Mohammed” and, having ruled and cursed 
Africa twelve and a half centuries, it is now spreading over the continent its 
bigoted, fanatical and intolerant faith. 


We are responsible for 20,000,600 people in territories already cccupied by our 
Missions, or assigned to us by governments, or through arrangements with 
other Churches. 


OUR STRATEGY TO DATE: 


Occupying six strategic areas, under five friendly governments, in North, South, 
West, East and Central Africa. All are easily reached by steamship or 
railroad. 


Twenty thousand acres for industrial and other work in Rhodesia and Portuguese 
East Africa. 


Missionaries and native workers: 
Establishing congregations 
Conducting industrial and other schools 
Dispensing medicine in a meagre way 
Translation and literary work 


Special feature of our work in North Africa—dormitories for Government school 
students. 


PROPOSALS: 
In North Africa: 


Develop homes for dependent Moslem boys and girls. War is mul- 
tiplying the need. Saving Moslem childhood solves the Moham- 
medan world menace. 


Organize systematic evangelistic work, house-to-house visitation in 
cities, and have great circuits for regular visitation and preach- 
ing, using automobiles. 


Algeria and Tunisia have more than 10,000 miles of excellent 
automobile roads. 


Train native pastoral leadership. 
Secure property. 
Provide ten additional missionaries. 
Among Pagans: 
Multiply local organized Christian communities. 
Make large addition to missionary staff. 
Establish a hospital in each conference. 
Provide equipment for industrial farms. 
Increase intelligent native leadership among pastors and teachers. 
Develop higher school centers with surrounding secondary schools. 
Open up Theological training centres. 


FRANCE 


207,054 


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CHINA ! 
1,532,420 Sa. Mires Wie 


at 208,780 5sq-M. 


I NDIA 


1,802,629 Se.M gue 


5,000 MILES EAST to WEST 


Totat Area|2,000,000 so.m./— 


Methodism must do its full part for 


the Redemption of this vast Area. 


AFRICA 


CHURCHES 
North Africa: Mohammedan Work 


PROBLEM: 


Moslem attitude toward Christians is that of indifference, contempt and even . 
violence. Our problem is to lead them to accept a faith which they despise 
from a people whom they hate. 


Business relations, social contact and especially the War are modify- 
ing the Moslem attitude and aiding Christian approach. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


Beginnings of Moslem congregations with Sunday Schools in five centers. 
Services held in rented halls—no church property. 
Evangelistic work is done at each center. 


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Churches, congregations and Sunday Schools among French and Spanish people. 


PROPOSALS: 


Other large evangelistic circuits should be organized for wide areas 
among Moslem people to distribute Scriptures and other Chris- 
tian literature; to hold meetings and create centers where native 
evangelists can be stationed. 


Four automobiles and missionaries are greatly needed for this work. 
Church buildings at five centers. 


Pagan Africa 


PROBLEM: 


The native chiefs invite the missionaries to send pastor-teachers to their terri- 
tories. A chief will, asa rule, furnish necessary land for buildings, gardens, 
etc., erect home for the teacher and buildings for the school and church and 
lodging houses for boys and girls. 


The problem in Pagan Africa is to meet these requests with a supply 
of adequately trained native pastor-teachers. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


88 missionaries, 350 native pastor-teachers, 355 churches and chapels valued at 
nearly half a million dollars. Many congregations have no buildings and 
worship out-of-doors. 


PROPOSALS: 


Establish many strong evangelistic centers among native peoples. 


Send ot least ten additional missionaries a year to hold the work as 
it isand insure reasonable advance. 


Provide hundreds of native pastor-teachers with adequate facilities 
for training them. 


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AFRICA 


lduggty: Is Modernizing, Africa 


25,000 Miles Of New Railroads 


Cities Are Replacing The Jungle 10 MILLION 


CHRISTIANS 
Where Commercialism Goes Paganism Crumbles 


WHAT SHALL TAKE ITS PLACE ? 


AFRICA 
SCHOOLS 
PROBLEM: 


NORTH AFRICA: The only opening door is with the boys and girls. The French 
Government forbids schools controlled by Churches but permits church 
homes for students. 


PAGAN AFRICA: We have to take the raw blacks from the bush and teach them 
everything which goes into the making of civilization. 


Over 800 languages and dialects of which 130 have been reduced to writing. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


NORTH AFRICA: Four homes for boys and two for girls. We own property 
in Tunis only. 


PAGAN AFRICA: In Liberia we havea college, theological training school, semi- 
nary and a system or primary schools throughout the Republic. 


The work is among both the Anglo-Liberians and Pagans. 


In Central and South Africa each Conference has a central training school around 
which there are many primary schools which act as feeders. 


At Old Umtali, Rhodesia, we have 3,000 acres of land, several buildings, a graded 
school, theological training class, mission press. Training is given in agri- 
culture, carpentry, printing, brick-making and other industries. Other 
similar schools in Central, South and East Africa. 


There are more than 10,600 pupils in the various schools which are now crowded 
to capacity. 


PROPOSALS: 


Greatly increase equipment for mission presses in Liberia, Angola, 
Old Umtali and Kambini. 


Restore and develop industrial farm at St. Paul, Liberia. 


Provide proper buildings for additional homes and residences in North 
Africa. 


Furnish more teachers and complete equipment in Liberia. 


Provide Teachers and equipment for central institutions for pagan 
blacks such as at Old Umtali. 


Send at least ten additional missionaries a year to hold the work 
as it is and insure reasonable advance. 


AFRICA 
HOSPITALS 
PROBLEM: 


Ignorance, superstition, poverty and neglect combine to multiply aggravated 
forms of bodily ailments in tropical Pagan Africa, to an extent unparalleled 
on any other continent. 


As in the time of our Lord, sympathetic medical care is the surest approach to the 
hearts and confidence of these suffering multitudes. 


We have only just begun using this divine method in Africa. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


Two physicians and two small hospitals,—one in Rhodesia and onein Portuguese © 
East Africa, where many operations are performed, and minor treatments 
are given to great numbers. 


One or two missionaries at every station do dispensary work, giving minor treat- 
ments to many thousands each year. 


PROPOSALS: 


Enlarge the two existing hospitals. 
Establish four others, one for each conference area. 


Provide a permanent fund for dispensing medicines at hospitals and 
missionary stations. 


The British Government will pay the salary for a physician in 
Rhodesia and provide medicines, if we will select the man and 
put up a $3,000 building. 


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AFRICA 
SUMMARY OF WHAT WE HAVE 


1917 

PROPERT Y— Number 
Churches, chapels, parsonages......................0-00005- Site, 
Educational institutions and presses....................... 13 
Hospitals and dispensaries eae: sin nate ile Se, 2 

Total property ure ee ens noe reine amet net ek ee RL a Nien ce an ake 
STAFF— 

. Missionaries and foreign workers..........................-. 88 
Native preachers and workers. .................2.c0ceeeeeee Sis 
LEachers’s. Sete ter aia ee aa ert as tee eee ca org 283 

Total stalls ese eres Shoe os eT ed tel ee, eee 686 
S CUDENTS AND BUPRITS nee cok eres amd ate Mantas Lets, 9,824 
MEM BERSHI P24 sce) fi b5 nt Siae Ro eee ane: ae Cte poh ale WI ee 20,807 


UNBAPTIZED ADHERENTS 


Valuation 


$342,180 


\ 127,493 


$469,673 


CENTENARY SURVEY—PRELIMINARY STATEMENT 


1917 


CHINA 


EFFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS—Totals for the Five Years 


Property and Equipment. . 
Maintenance.............. 


Endowment... 44. 


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Property and Equipment 
EVANGELISTIC 
9 institutional churches 


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addition to present income) 


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Evangelistic Educational Medical Total Receipts Home Base 
$1,023,075 $1,844,497 $643,200 $3,510,772 $526,120 $2,984,652 
OO ULC 1,143,128 444,045 2,120,189 344,000 1,776,189 
Bite peak ae LO0G 007 cae ae mar a 1606, 607 Sipe oer. SL 1,606,667 
$1,556,091 $4,594,292 $1,087,245 $7,237,628 $870,120 $6,367,508 
Analysis of Above Requirements 
EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL 


314 city and village churches 2 


12 missionary residences 


53 native workers’ residences 


Maintenance 


27 new missionaries 
354 native workers 


Endowment 


5 university centers ( Buildings 
0 secondary schools and 
278 primary schools Equipment 


47 missionary teachers 
838 native teachers 


2 hospitals 


6 dispensaries 


41 missionary doctors 
92 native assistants 


Endowment Requested is for 3 Universities and the Peking Academy 


CHINA 


GENERAL SURVEY 
PROBLEM: 


China is in peril. 
Her old religions crumble under the shock of world relations and 
modern education. 
Those who must mould her destinies tomorrow are in her schools today. 
They are religiously adrift. 
For her democracy China must have the ideals which the Pilgrim 
Fathers brought to us. 
Christianity is recognized by the nation as a vital factor. 
Government schools and offices close on Sunday. 
Officials are friendly and often co-operate with missions. 
Both missionaries and Chinese converts are recognized leaders in every 
field from education to social service. 
All classes are interested in the Gospel. 
Fine practical comity among all denominations. 
The field is clearly divided to prevent overlapping. 
Over forty interdenominational institutions. 
Hearty co-operation between leading missionary Boards covering evan- 
gelistic, medical and educational work and publications. 
A uniting front on an advancing line. 


Methodists exclusively responsible for $9,000,000. 


OUR STRATEGY TO DATE: 


Extensive itinerating. 
Planting and development of local Churches. 
A school beside each Church. 


Well organized educational system reaching from primary school 
through college and university. 


Hospitals and dispensaries in radiating centers. 


In proportion to its missionary staff our Church, compared with a sister mission 
with other policies, has 4 times as many hospitals, 8 times as many schools, 
125 per cent more members. 


Whereas at first only the poorest classes of society were won, at present every class, 
from the most ignorant to the best educated, is accessible to the Gospel. 


Policy of transferring larger responsibilities to native leadership. 100 per cent in- 
crease in self-support in ten years. 


PROPOSALS: 


Develop self-supporting and self-propagating churches until they are 
found everywhere. 

Make possible a commanding work among educated classes in city 
centers. 

Establish Social service of sweeping proportions. 

Hold present educational leadership. 

Equip to continue training Christian leaders of leaders. 

Secure strategic sites while property is still cheap. 

Place medical institutions on a basis to insure full use and con- 
secutive operation of our plants, sustain native confidence in 
them and greatly increase local financial support. 

Co-operate with the most advanced movements in exemplifying 
Wetsern standards of medical education and practice. 


Co-operate in developing inter-denominational schools for higher 
learning. 


THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 


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CHINA’S CENTENARY GOALS 


DOUBLE Membership 

TREBLE Sunday School and 
other Bible Students. 

TREBLE Self Support. 


1665 1895 1905 1918 1885 1895 1905 ios 


MEMBERS SELF - SUPPORT 


ELF SUPPORTIN' 
THE GOAL-AfsErE PROPAGATI METHODISM. 


STATIONS OF THE METNOOIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH SOUTH ARE IN BLUE LETTERING. 


CHINA 
CHURCHES 
PROBLEM: 


Recent Revolutions have changed the intellectual outlook of nation. 


Old customs and traditions are being discarded but are not yet replaced 
by new codes. Freedom degenerating into license. 


Minds and hearts of the people open to the Gospel to an unparalleled 
degree. 


Literati very approachable. Where they lead the mass will follow. 

A dependable Church membership still difficult. 
Clan system retards development of sense of individual responsibility. 
Methodist converts are from one-half to two-thirds illiterate. 


Missionary frequently so hampered in raising special gifts in America 
as to leave little time for direct spiritual leadership. 


Hundreds of Methodists migrating to Malaysia annually. China is 
thus a Gospel base for a new Island nation which soon will be a 
very great factor in the Orient. 


Methodism responsible for territory with a population as great as half of that of the 
United States. Hundreds of thousands of villages and towns left to our denom- 
ination alone still without any regular Christian services. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


Seventy years of encouraging history; Christians of third and fourth generation— 
an indigenous leadership—3,000 native preachers. 


Annual increase of from 10 per cent to 60 per cent toward pastoral support. In 
some districts all salaries for native pastors paid by Chinese. In others every 
dollar from America for a church building is matched by a dollar from the 
Chinese Church. 


A strong native leadership in Church, school, politics, social reform. 
One publishing house. 


Institutional churches with schools and clubs for boys and girls; sewing, cooking, 
music classes for women; reading-rooms and lectures. Officials and gentry 
taking an active interest. 


PROPOSALS: 


Release missionaries from direct responsibility for raising money in 
America thus leaving them free for spiritual leadership, intensive 
culture through Bible study campaign, retreats, etc. 


Erect worthy church buildings which will command respect of both 
Christian and non-Christian. 


Provide and equip Chinese pastors qualified to lead the influential 
classes and to hold for Christian life and service the products of 
our mission institutions. 


Occupy with churches and regular services all sections of our Metho- 
dist territory. 


CHINA 
SCHOOLS 


China is a nation of scholar-worshippers 


PROBLEM: 


Illiteracy averages 95 per cent throughout the country. 
Methodism’s direct responsibility—%, 000,000 boys and girls of school age. 


Christian schools are now in fete ince of educational leadership. They set 
standards for the others. 


Communities everywhere call, frequently in vain, for Christian schools. 


The Chinese are ready to make liberal subscriptions for land and buildings. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


Five complete systems of education with a total of 25,000 students in six hundred 
primary schools, twelve secondary schools and five universities. 


Eight hundred students in universities are being trained as agriculturists, foresters, 
doctors, business men, preachers, teachers, statesmen. 


Schools of all grades are crowded to the doors and turning away hundreds of 
applicants annually. 


We aim in the lower schools to fit students for life as well as to prepare them for 
higher schools. To this end gardening, chicken-raising, weaving, silk-culture 
and mechanical training are being introduced. 


PROPOSALS: : 


To buttress the Chinese Republic with a system of Western education which 
has evangelization as its prime object. To this end— 


Establish firmly five university centers. 


Develop secondary schools :-— 
Preparatory for higher institutions. 


Designed especially for insuring an educated membership, 


Provide numerous primary schools:— 
As feeders to higher grades. 
For creating universal literacy in the Church. 


Five STRATEGIC EDUCATIONAL CENTERS 


BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS 
A SYSTEM OF TRIBUTARY SCHOOLS AROUND EACH 


CHINA 


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Nahonal Capital 


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of inkrnetonal rivalry 


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PEKING, CHENGTU, NANKING and FOOCHOW. 
are Union University Centres — 
4 Schools of Arts and Sciences 3Medical Schools 
4 Theological Schools 3 Normal Schools 
—Methodism Co-operates in All- 


NAN CHANG is to be our Denominational University Centre 
for Educational work in Kiangsi Province Our College of Arts 
and Sciences inthis area is at Kiukiang. 

Our Board also has :- 

| Biblical Sthool 12 High Schools 


| Normal Training School 39 Grammar Schools 
rimary Schools. 


Enrollment in these schools 
Enrollment inall Denominational Schools inthis area- 86,085 


Centre of largest Meéthodis) 
Conshivency tn Chivia 

Provincial Capito! 

Cy of nearly @ inilion people 


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80% of Students desiring Education 
above High School must come to 
Missionary Institutions. 
% of China’s First Constitutional Congress 
were Graduates of Mission Schools. 


CHINA 
HOSPITALS 
PROBLEM: 


Chinese medicine although possessing some value is bound up with gross supersti- 
tions and magic. Quite incapable of dealing with such diseases as diphtheria, 
cholera, and plague. 


Chinese know practically nothing of surgery except as they learn it 
from Western schools. 


Only in certain centers have people awakened to questions of public sanitation; 
cities the size of Boston draw water from polluted rivers and wells. Every city 
and village has open sewers. 


Methodist responsibility: to help Chinese establish hospitals, and provide 
doctors and nurses for a population equal to that of the New England, Atlantic 
and Gulf States. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


11 hospitals and 2 dispensaries; 16 physicians, 3 nurses. 


One hospital nearly self-supporting; another has promise of $50,000 from Chinese 
for new building. 


Missionary physicians have special entrée to upper classes, their services having 
been requested for members of the former Royal Family and in the household 
of the late president, Yuan Shi Kai. 


Every hospital is understaffed. Five hospitals have no nurses, six have only one 
doctor each. Four hospitals are now without physicians and therefore closed. 


Usually when a physician goes on furlough his hospital has to be closed for the 
year. 


PROPOSALS: 


Staff existing hospitals with sufficient nurses, physicians and surgeons. 
Establish two additional hospitals and six dispensaries. 


Man and equip medical schools to train Christian Chinese for effective 
medical, surgical and nursing service. 


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HOSPITAL CENTRES 


BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS 


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KUTIEN 200.000 


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35,100,000 People have I! Hospitals , 24 Physicians 


| Hospital to 3,190,000 
1 Physician to 1,462,500 
ARE THEY ENOUGH ? 
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CHINA 
SUMMARY OF WHAT WE HAVE 


1917 
PROPERT Y— Number Valuation 
Churches, chapels, parsonages, homes...................... 914 $575,223 
Educational institutions and presses........................ 29 \ 
984,100 
Hospitals and ‘dispensaries 422 aaa se ee ee 11 
Lotal property cs 1) Mee te eae a ee alee rts en ky $1,559,323 
STAFF— 
Missionaries and foreign workers.........................045- 207 
Native preachers and'workers! 3.0. 4) oo ee ee 3,083 
Teachers 2.0. sci ce cea is cen ee as dee Ore saan NaS Wezel 
Lotalstalt yi ie een eh eee Year weed or heiP Teaeale 4,562 
STUDENTS/AND:PUPILS 2 gre ee ee 23,366 
MEMBERSHIP eo oc aetna Be ene aR, et eT nee ee 57,365 


CENTENARY SURVEY—PRELIMINARY STATEMENT 


1917 


EUROPE 


Owing to present conditions the full and detailed statement of 
proposals for our share in the work of rehabilitation is postponed. 


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THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN EUROPE 


Only a non-state church will be in position to lead 
the European nations in the period of reconstruction 


To Methodism, with points 
of Friendly contact well establish 
ed before the.war will be opened 
largest way for bringing its message 
of personal hope to new democratic 


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Colored areas show countries in which 
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AFTER THE WAR— WHAT ? 


EUROPE 


GENERAL SURVEY 


(A complete survey at the present time is impossible because of the war. 
Proposals must of necessity be only tentative.) 


PROBLEM : 


The adaptation of Methodism to the three separate sets of conditions to be found 
respectively in Protestant, Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic Europe. 


The Evangelical Church, in practice, is not permitted in Servia, Roumania, Greece 
and Montenegro. Elsewhere with the exception of France there is a State 
Church. 


Methodism is at work in eleven countries, all of which, with the exception of Swed- 
en, Norway and Denmark, are now at war. 


OUR STRATEGY TO DATE: 


There are eleven Conferences and one mission in eleven different lands. 


Broadly speaking the work is evangelistic—to give life to the ecclesiasticism of the 
State Church. In many of these countries the Methodist work was started by 
Methodist converts who had returned to their homes from America. 


Methodism is in strategical places such as capital cities and large centers of popula- 
tion; for example it has a unique advantage for meeting the new conditions in 
Russia because of the Methodist mission in Petrograd. 


Various types of work may be differentiated loosely as follows: Germany, Austria 
and Switzerland: evangelistic and medical; Italy: educational and evangel- 
istic; Bulgaria: purely evangelistic; Scandinavia: evangelistic and educa- 
tional; France: evangelistic, orphanages; Russia: evangelistic. 


Conspicuous features: 


Deaconesses—usually from Germany, trained in nursing, house-to-house visita- 
tion and teaching. They arerapidly spreading Methodist work throughout 
Europe. 


Hospitals—highly developed in Germany and Switzerland. 


PROPOSALS: 


Standardize staff and equipment with a view to creating a well- 
balanced organization in each country. 


. Liquidate debts of property that.the test of time and opportunity has 
shown to have been judiciously contracted. Some fields would 
be made entirely self-supporting by such action. 


Establish ourselves strongly in Paris by securing Headquarters 
for work and workers. 


EUROPE 
CHURCHES 
PROBLEM: 


To strengthen spiritual forms and forces of Christianity. 


Church buildings heavily mortgaged especially in Germany. Switzerland reports 
that debts are the only obstacle to self-support. One church building in 
France, few in Bulgaria. Our Societies in most cases poorly housed. 


Unoccupied areas for which Methodism alone is responsible: Servia and Roumania. 


Great disorganization on account of the War: preachers and members killed or 
crippled. Crushing financial burdens threaten existenceof urches. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


13 missionaries, 947 preachers and workers, 78,009 members and probationers. 
782 church buildings, chapels, parsonages and homes. 


Methodism is introducing Sunday Schools into Europe. 


In quality, spirit and doctrine we have a peculiar adaptability for European work: 
we have an international organization, episcopal authority and democratic 
government. 


PROPOSALS: 


Plan for and co-operate in payment of debts in various places in 
Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Scandinavia. 


Increase the staff of workers. 


Give special attention to the development of deaconess work in 
countries where it is now weakly established. 


Consider the entrance into Servia, Roumania and Spain to open up 
missionary work. 


Carefully re-study the religious situation in Russia with a view to 
giving such assistance to evangelical forces as may be needed. 


EUROPE 


SCHOOLS 
PROBLEM: 


State schools adequate to care for needs of primary education in all countries where 
we are at work. 


Methodism must train both its own lay and ordained workers in its own boarding, 
high and Bible schools. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


No schools conducted by our Board in Bulgaria. 
No schools in France. 


(Incomplete returns will not permit accurate statements as to the present extent 
and variety of educational work in the other countries.) 


Publishing houses in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Italy, Norway, Sweden and 
Finland. 


PROPOSALS: 


By endowment and added equipment strengthen educational work in 
Rome and Venice. 


Establish a Bible training and Boys’ schools for Bulgaria. 
Open up an Industrial school for Russia. 


Establish a Bible training school, and an industrial and agricultural 
institution for France. 


EUROPE 
HOSPITALS 
PROBLEM: 


Medical work in Europe grew out of the Deaconess work as a form of social service. 
Everywhere self-supporting except for debts. 
Scandinavia, Austria and Russia deficient in this form of service. 


All medical work in warring countries now diverted to meet the exigencies created 
by the war. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


Three well-equipped hospitals in Germany, one in Switzerland. (Incomplete 
returns from other countries.) 


All deaconesses work in clinics where there are no hospitals and carry on a certain 
amount of medical work. 


Our hospitals, clinics and dispensaries are especially designed to meet the needs of 
the unprivileged classes. 


PROPOSALS: 


Establish new medical work in Russia and Finland. 
Greatly strengthen work in Austria and Scandinavia. 
Pay debts in Germany. 


EUROPE 


SUMMARY OF WHAT WE HAVE 


1917 


Owing to the War No Statistics are Published 


CENTENARY SURVEY—PRELIMINARY STATEMENT 


1917 


INDIA 


EFFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS—Totals for the Five Years 


(In addition to present income) 


From Local From 
Evangelistic Educational Medical Total Receipts Home Base 
Property and Equipment... $1,120,422 $1,553,501 $47,500 $2,721,423 $156,621 $2,564,802 
Maintenance). (..300. 0. os5.- 904,965 725,440 33,490 1,663,895 122,166 1,541,729 
Endowment Wee ee ye Aldactone 1072. 000 Whee 1,072,000 1,000 1,071,000 
Totalsg- sane cke aoe een o2,025-55 7a oo oDU 948 $80,990 $5,457,318 $279,787 $5,177,531 


ONE MILLION DOLLARS OF THIS IS FOR THE EMERGENCY CAUSED BY THE MASS MOVEMENT 


| 


Analysis of Above Requirements 


- Property and Equipment 
EVANGELISTIC 
275 Rural chapels 
450 Preachers’ houses 
45 Missionary residences 


Land for the above 


Maintenance 


1,050 Native workers, including 
evangelists for the Mass 
Movement 


74 New missionaries 


Endowment 


EDUCATIONAL 
100 Village Schools 
1,000 Teachers’ Houses 
15 Missionary residences 


Added School Plant for— 
Secondary, High, Theo- 
logical Schools, and the 
College 

“The Butler Memeorial’’— 

Delhi Mission Center 


1,300 Rural Teachers 
20 New missionaries 


Increased Staff for all Central 
Schools 


Scholarships for all Schools 
and College 


| $300,000 for College 

| 260,000 for Bareilly Seminary 
| 

| 


300,000 for Christian Litera- 
ture 


272,000 for Other Institutions 


MEDICAL 


The amounts asked for property and equipment and maintenance are for the further development 


of our hospitals and dispensaries. 


INDIA 
GENERAL SURVEY 


PROBLEM: 


Methodism responsible for 54 millions. 
Illiteracy—89 per cent men, 99 per cent women unable to read or write. 


Government education undermining ancient faiths; not furnishing any new 
ethical or religious foundation. 


Extreme poverty among the masses, from whom 90 per cent of our converts have 
come. 


Mass Movement towards Christianity, more than 30,000 baptisms annually, 
affecting 50 million people, embarrasses Christian agencies, for lack of 
missionaries and Indian workers. 


New national consciousness and aspirations call for new type of leadership in 
the Church. 


OUR STRATEGY TO DATE: 


Thoroughly organized work in all the great branches of missionary effort. 
Property valued at $4,000,000. 
Christian community of 312,000. 


Educational system including Primary, Middle (‘‘Grade’’), High, Normal, Indus- 
trial, Commercial and Theological Schools, with three large central colleges— 
one for women. 

All teach the Bible every day to 40,000 Christian and non-Christian 
pupils. 

Two Publishing Houses, serving seven language areas containing 173 million 
people. 


Well organized Young People’s work, enrolling 25,000 Epworthians and 150,000 
Sunday School scholars. 


A small but efficient medical work. 


PROPOSALS: 


Develop multitudes of communities into local churches. 


Increase force of missionaries to meet evangelistic emergency in 
Mass Movement areas. 


Train and send out the requisite number of Indian Pastors to shep- 
herd Christian communities. 


Provide primary education for our 60,000 neglected boys and girls in 
the villages. 


Strengthen our higher education, so as to secure adequate Christian 
leadership in the new India. 


Establish a permanent Christian Literature Fund. 


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INDIAN TRADE NuGGETS 
20,000 Post Offices 

86,000 Miles of Telegraph Lines 
50,000 Miles of Canals 

25 Million acres under irrigation 

1 Billion Dollars of exports and imports 
The Jute trade of the World 

Half the Tea trade of the World 

Cotton, Hides, Rice and Wheat also exported 


Christian Strategy planted Schools, Churches 
Publishing Houses in the Centers on this 


Map 


Christian Statesmanship must adequately 
lead an AWAKENED INDIA 


INDIA 


CHURCHES 


Christianity is moving forward five times as fast as Islam and 
eight times as rapidly as Hinduism 


PROBLEM: 


50 million people of depressed classes, moving en masse towards Christianity, 
threaten to overwhelm limited evangelistic resources of the Church. Our 
share six millions. 


We refused to baptise 150,000 people last year for lack of missionary supervision 
and Indian pastors and teachers. 


Reformed Hinduism, awake to the menace of the Mass Movement, is bitterly 
persecuting Christian converts while making desperate efforts to retain 
allegiance of low castes. 


High castes more accessible than ever before, but new nationalist movement not 
attracted to Christianity. 


66 million Mohammedans, making India the greatest Moslem country of the 
world 


Methodism’s total responsibility 54 million people of all classes. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 
The Bible is the best known book in the land. 
Force of 109 (men) missionaries, 415 ordained and 1590 unordained preachers. 
250 Church Buildings and Chapels. 


New sense of responsibility and leadership in Indian Church owing to national 
awakening and aspirations. 


Aggressive policy in printing and distributing Christian literature. 


PROPOSALS: 


Erect Chapels and Churches in areas where the Mass Movement 
has created hundreds of new congregations. 


Increase missionary force from 109 to 204, to meet the emergency of 
the Mass Movement and hold more strongly our great centres. 


Add 1,050 native pastors to shepherd newly baptised thousands and 
instruct hundreds of thousands asking for baptism. 


Build the houses for these additional missionaries and native pastors. 


INDIA 
METHODISM Ss RESPONSIBILITY: 54 MILLIONS 


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Average Parish for each Missionary. ..--.. 256000 
Maximum Parish advised by the Edinburgh 
World. Misstonary Conference..-.-.......50,000 


New Missionaries needed on this basis... _- Ea OOS 


POPULATION OF INDIA 


THREE HUNDRED FIFTEEN MILLIONS 


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ARAB STAN eye itane Soma 30,000 Baptised by us in 1916 


MADRAS —— 


150,000 were Refused Baptism in 1916 


For Lack of Christian teachers. 


6 MILLION Calling for instruction and Baptism 


50 MILLION Available to Christianity through 
the Mass Movements 


This Map shows only the Chief Areas 
affected by the Mass Movement, and 
only those in which Methodism is at work. 


INDIA 
SCHOOLS 
PROBLEM: 


Not even one in ten people can read. 
Government schools anti-Christian in sentiment. 


Rising standards of education and increasing demands by Government call for 
larger buildings, up-to-date equipment, normal trained teachers, and old- 
age provision for members of native staff. 


60,000 Methodist boys and girls (4/5 of total number) now without schools: this 
number increasing 5,000 each year. 


Modernization of India and new national life make imperative a more highly 
trained Christian leadership, through a more efficient system of education. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


Well co-ordinated system of schools—kindergarten to University. Total enrol- 
ment—40,000. 


A liberal system of Government grant-in-aid. 
Chance to reach higher classes of Hindu and Moslem youth. 


The sympathetic support of the non-Christian community, shown by crowded 
schoolrooms. 


PROPOSALS: 


Make an adequate response to the Mass Movement appeal fer 
schools. 


Strengthen our central educational institutions, providing -endow- 
ment sufficient to insure efficient Staff, necessary new buildings 
and adequate equipment. 


Add 1,300 teachers for primary schools so as to meet demand created 
by Mass Movement’s growth. 


Concentrate on our chief industrial institutions. 


Endow our Theological Seminaries, and provide for each language 
area the necessary Bible Training Schools for village workers. 


Guarantee sustained progress in the preparation of trained Christian 
teachers. 


OUR EDUCATIONAL STRONGHOLDS COVER THE LAND 
AND ARE IN THE GREAT CENTERS Of POPULATION 


The Cities on the Map are our Centers ot higher Cducation, 
Including 3 Colleges and 28 High Schools. 


As “feeders” to these we have 
75 Grade and 1500 Primary Schools. 


TOTAL ENROLLMENT 40,000. 


| P RO V/ N CEs 


RAN GOON 
° 


SEMADRAS 


Literacy shown by Provinces as follows: 


‘ae: 38% 
7A Mito ii7 
6t0 9 % 


4to 6 *% 
‘Total Literate in India 38 Millions 
Out of a Tota! Population of 315 Millions. 


INDIA 
CHRISTIAN LITERATURE 


PROBLEM: 


A great educational renaissance bringing the Press to a position of dominating 
influence. 


A new spirit of sympathetic enquiry on part of better educated classes, calling for 
a fresh interpretation by us of Christian teachings and ideals. 


An anti-Christian Press more than ever alert and active. 


A rapidly increasing Christian community, with a lagging output of Christian 
literature. 


Half a dozen language areas whose Methodist workers and people are not supplied 
by our Press. 


A large body of young people growing up with insufficient literature to meet their 
needs. 


The necessity to create what can be neither bought nor imported. 
Pagan literature discredited: new ethical literature coming into existence. 


An awakened people calling for light and truth, and eager for anything in print. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


A developed Christian community, demanding an adequate literature in their 
own languages. 


Two Publishing Houses—one at Lucknow, one at Madras. Combined output 
reaches 7 language areas, containing 173 million people. 


Half a dozen papers and magazines, published in as many languages, including 
the leading religious weekly in India. 


PROPOSALS: 


Provide a permanent fund for publishing Christian literature. 


Lay adequate plans to reach unevangelized millions with the Gospel 
message through the printed page. 


Fully counteract efforts of anti-Christian Press. 


Extend activities and provide for language areas not reached by our 
two Presses. 


Furnish our Christian constituency with our type of literature. 


Encourage native writers to create an indigenous literature cast in 
native moulds of thought. 


METHODIST PUBLISHING HOUSES 


eae LANGUAGE AREAS SERVED 


ye on CONTAIN 
3 '73 Mittions or PeoPLe 


PUNJABI 


SHOE Br 


IS MILLION 


BOMBAY 


ARABIA 


SEA 


METHODISM’S PRESS 
Must Have REINFORCEMENTS to Provive 


CHRISTIAN READING ror INDIA’S MILLIONS 
AND HELP TRAIN 
CONVERTS 


INDIA TEACHERS > CHRIST | 


LEADERS haem | 


INDIA 
SUMMARY OF WHAT WE HAVE 


L917 


PROPERT Y— 
Churches, chapels, parsonages, homes 
Educational institutions and presses 
Hospitals and dispensaries 


Number Valuation 


Dry CONOR er nO ob one ci 793 $ 974,029 


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Total property ice dil ea eG ee ere ee $2,596,018 
STAFF— 
Missionaries of the Board—Men, 109; Women, 102.............. fel 
Ansio-Indian‘assistants vee ee 25 
Native’ preachers and workers). 2)... 0... 0.4. te ee 6,213 
Teachers erent eke nn dukes Ee te tc ee a: RE Rn cE 2,601 
‘Lotal stale on} ea ees. eae See eet ete ete en 9,100 
SLTUDENTS#AND GPUPILS Bars (pee ree eee ee ee ee 39,013 
CHURCHY MEMBERSHIP eee re eet ee ae env 311,757 


*Including 22 schools below High School grade, but excluding 1,500 Primary Schools 


“y 


CENTENARY SURVEY—PRELIMINARY STATEMENT 


1917 


JAPAN AND KOREA 


EFFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS —Totals for the Five Years 


Un addition to present income) 


From From 
Evangelistic Educational Medical Total Local Receipts Home Base 
Property and Equipment... $365,047 $567,480 $44,730 $977,257 $85,615 $891,642 
Maintenance.............. 225,830 138,300 47 634 411,764 31,318 380,446 
Endowmen tere 3.65 el toe oa KOO Me iePtehon geaenhe 1,500 750 750 
Totals isn. ae $590,877 $707,280 $92,364 $1,390,521 $117,683 $1,272,838 
Analysis of Above Requirements 
Property and Equipment 
EVANGELISTIC EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL 
41 churches, Korea 14 school buildings, Korea 2 hospitals, Korea 
38 churches, Japan 2school buildings, Japan land, additions, etc 
8 parsonages, Japan land, additions, etc. 
missionary residences, land, 
additions, etc. 
Maintenance 
19 missionaries, Korea 62 native teachers, Korea native assistants 
17 missionaries, Japan 6 native teachers, Japan nurses, etc. 


27 native preachers, Korea 
87 native preachers, Japan 


Endowment 


The endowment requested is for School Laboratory 


JAPAN AND KOREA 
GENERAL SURVEY 


Shall we give the Gospel to a people eager for the elements 
of a Christian civilization? 


PROBLEM: 


A weakening hold of the old religions, accompanied by recent attempts to revive 
Buddhism and support Shintoism through its patriotic appeal. 


Recognition by leaders of the need of a moral and religious basis for the national 
life. 


Prevalence of immorality a menace to the national life. 


OUR STRATEGY TO DATE: 


Our Church co-operates with the Japan Methodist Church in Japan. In Korea 
we work independently. 


In Japan one college and theological school and one high school. In Korea one 
college and theological school, four high schools, one medical college and 159 
elementary schools, providing Christian instruction for 8,500 students. 


The only missionary publishing house and book store in Japan. 


Four hospitals in Korea, ministering in a Christian way to thousands of people 
otherwise without hospital facilities. 


491 churches and chapels in Korea, well located in chief cities and towns and in 
important positions in rural districts. 


PROPOSALS: 


Continue a sympathetic and generous co-operation with the Metho- 
dist Church of Japan. 


Push the founding of strong local churches to meet the generally 
receptive attitude towards Christianity. 


Co-operate adequately in the proposed Union Christian University 
at Tokyo and the Union Chosen College at Seoul, Korea. 


Make better provision for training Christian workers and developing 
native leadership. 


naomrs The Japan Methodist Church,a union of three 
wy Methodisms, has reached the stage of indigenous control I+ 
needs and earnestly desires the wholehearted Cooperation 

of American Methodism 


In this great nation of Japan, Christianity may 
develop a Constructive Leadership for the Orient which will 
profoundly influence the entire Church of Christ 


The Church in Korea 1s already furnishing standards 
forall Methodism in Evangelistic Zeal, in Giving, and in 
rapid Growth 


Stations of the /fethodist Episcopal Church in Black 
Stations of the /tethodist Episcopal Church South in Blue 


JAPAN AND KOREA 
CHURCHES 
PROBLEM: 


Many thousand people, dissatisfied with the old religions, turning to Christianity 
with sincere desire to test its truth. 


Thousands of inquirers enrolled as a result of the national evangelistic campaign 
in Japan. 


Eager multitudes in Korea in all places where the Gospel message is carried. 


Present quarters crowded beyond capacity by the congregations and Sunday 
Schools organized and operated by the Methodist Episcopal Church. 


Compelling opportunities in Manchuria now being largely settled by both 
Japanese and Koreans. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


When the Japan Methodist Church was formed in 1907, our Church contributed 
45 churches and 5,500 members. 


In Korea 220 native preachers and 469 helpers, with all foreign workers, make our 
total force 768. 


Over 20,000 full members and probationers in Korea, and nearly 30,000 in the 
Sunday School. 


In poe yi apan and Korea, a growing body of personal workers from the lay mem- 
ership. 


PROPOSALS: 


Make the church more thoroughly indigenous by building up local 
congregations. 


Enlarge our church buildings to accommodate the growing congrega- 
tions. 


Erect 40 new churches in strategic places in Korea. 


Extend work from centers already established into hitherto un- 
touched sections. 


Enter unoccupied territory in Japan where more than a million 
people are without Christian preaching. 


JAPAN AND KOREA 
SCHOOLS 
PROBLEM: 


An efficient Government school system, lacking in religious atmosphere. 
Thousands of non-Christian students ready to enter our schools every year. 
Graduates of Christian schools in demand for positions of responsibility. 
Trained Christian leadership, one of the primary requisites of the nation. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


In Japan: 


Collegiate, theological and preparatory training for over 700 students 
at Aoyama Gakuin; Tokyo. 


60 per cent of its students Christians at the close of each school year in 
our. preparatory school Chinzei Gakuin, at Nagasaki. 


In Korea: 
We have a share in the Union Chosen College at Seoul, Korea. 


The Pai Chai School at Seoul and three other high schools in Korea, 
some of them in districts where the Government has not yet 
opened schools above the common ¢rade. 


159 elementary schools in Korea, mainly in places where there are no 
government schools. 


PROPOSALS: 


Make extensive improvements at Nagasaki School to modernize our 
plant and enable us to compete with Government schools of the 
same grade. 


Standardize our day schools in Korea so as to meet the Government 
requirements for primary education. 


Provide additional quarters for religious exercises to cover the law 
against religious instruction in class rooms. 


Extend our system of day schools in Korea in places where the 
Government is not at work. 


“BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS. 


JAPAN ww conch / 
HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS 


IN JAPAN — The Government 
System of Education -modern and 
CHINZE/ GAKUIN i efficient — is producing a nation of intel- 


Gi lectual agnostics i 


Japan’s Non Christian Leaders are a- 

ware of this danger. 

Christian Education is therefore wel 
comed. Our Schools at Tokyo and Nagasaki 
are equipping men morally and intellectually 
to fill positions of responsibility. 


IN KOREA — Through our four High Schools 
a share in the Union College at Seoul and 150 
elementary Schools we are helping to build 
a Christian Civilization in Korea and train 
leadership which shall develop her Evange- 
listic fervor as a constructive force for 
the whole Japanese Empire. 


JAPAN AND KOREA 
HOSPITALS 
PROBLEM: 


Large territories in Korea without hospitals or modern medical advantages. 


Insanitary conditions of living and absurdities of native medical treatment 
responsible for the unnecessarily high death rate in rural districts. 


Responsiveness of the people of all classes to the ministrations of Christian hos- 
pitals. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


No hospital in Japan because the Government institutions are so well equipped 
and conducted. 


Three hospitals of our own and a share in a fourth in Korea, where. the Govern- 
ment makes no such adequate provision as in Japan :— 


Hospital in Haiju, with 5,000 individual patients in 1916. 


Hospital at Pyeng Yang, recently modernized in accommodations and equip- 
ment. 11,000 dispensary patients in ten months of 1916. 


Wonju Swedish Hospital, the one hospital in an entire province of over 
400,000 people. One foreign doctor, with one native assistant and one 
nurse comprise the working force. 


Union Medical College at Seoul, the only Christian medical college and 
nurses’ training school in Korea. 


PROPOSALS: 


Enlarge present quarters in practically all our hospitals where 
our work is limited by lack of accommodations. 


Increase the staff of doctors and nurses in all hospitals. 


Re-establish and provide for our medical work at Kongju and Yeng 
Byen. 


JAPAN AND KOREA 
SUMMARY OF WHAT WE HAVE 


1917 


Statistics given below are for Korea only; Japan Methodist Church keeps its own 
statistics) 


PROPERT Y— Number Valuation 
Churches, chapels, parsonages, homes...................... is $86,078 
Educational institutions and presses......................-. \ 

296,411 
Hospitals and dispensaries 723, ee te eae 
Total property 4 ods ie cee oc Ne Oe ee eam ane wee ae a $382,489 
STAFF— 
Missionaries and foreign workers.......................0005- 48 
Native preachers and workers, 20) 7)... 2222). ee ee 689 
"eachers) oa a ai aka Se Ae LU ina ane ee ee iat ae a eet 437 
Totals tak iyi eG aCe yD Stas GIN Nit er Ure te ings bere Ee ome 1,174 
STUDENTS AND 'PUPTES So cing eo eee ere taper er 7,899 
MEMBERSHIP 39325 Pie ire hat cae ORIN cre OE ed te een ra re Eras fale as 23,919 


UNBAPFIZED ADHERENTS iat ieee a eee eee 19,504 


CENTENARY SURVEY—PRELIMINARY STATEMENT 


1917 


MALAYSIA 


EFFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS—Totals for the Five Years 


Property and Equipment... 
Maintenance.............. 


Endowmenteue ss. oe 


Totals veers aes 


Property and Equipment 
EVANGELISTIC 
35 chapels 
3 missionary residences 
3 parsonages 
Land for above 


Maintenance 


24 native preachers 
23 new missionaries 


Un addition to present income) 


From Local From 
Evangelistic Educational Medical Total Receipts Home Base 
$204,800 $440,700 $149,000 $794,500 $247,550 $546,950 
194,930 13,850 64,860 273,640 95,930 177,710 
$399,730 $454,550 $213,860 $1,068,140 $343,480 $724,669 


Analysis of Above Requirements 


EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL 
20 village schools 9 hospitals 
10 middle schools 
6 high schools 
1 college 


3 theological schools 
5 teachers’ residences 


9 doctors 


MALAYSIA 


GENERAL SURVEY 


The melting pot of Asia where Malay, Indian and Chinese peoples 
meet and fuse 


PROBLEM: 


Sixty millions of people, with 250,000 Chinese and 60,000 Indian immigrants 
arriving annually. 


Immigrants are a selected class more adventurous in spirit, less bound by 
traditions, quick to learn and ready for progress. 


An island nation in the making: a million square miles in the prolific tropics. 
Properly developed, this area could more than feed all of China and India. 


The British administer the Malay Peninsula and North Borneo, the Dutch hold 
Sumatra, Java, West Borneo and Celebes. 


Methodism is the only American mission; warmly welcomed by bcoth British and 
Dutch Governments. 


The present appropriation furnishes one missionary to each million of those for 
whom Methodism is responsible. 


OUR STRATEGY TO DATE: 


Seventy schools with the Anglo-Chinese College at Singapore as a centre and 
example. 


Industrial missions among the Dyaks of Borneo with oversight and 
assistance for Chinese farmers and miners. 


The Singapore publishing house wholly self-supporting, furnishing books for 
schools and Sunday Schools, Bibles, Christian literature and tracts in many 
languages. 


A hospital for Java, three-fourths of the cost being borne by the Government. 
Six other similar hospitals under way. 


A number of small scattered eager congregations bearing faithful witness each 
in its own neighborhood; each congregation being closely associated with a 
school. 


PROPOSALS: 


Develop self-supporting churches as rapidly as possible. 
Establish a central university at Singapore. 

Increase number and equipment of schools. 

Provide a literature fund for the spreading of Christian truth. 
Establish chain of hospitals through the Dutch possessions. 


MALAY SIA 


Home of many Races, many Languages 

With amazing Riches of Sea and Land 

Able to maintain ten times its pre- 
sent Population 

Receiving yearly Hundreds of Thousands 
of the overPlow of China and India 


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Ours |S THE ONLY AMERICAN MISSION AT WORK IN MALAYSIA, 


MOHAMMED OR CHRIST ? ——-= 


Islam now claims more than: one 
half of Malaysia’s Sixty Millions. 
The Island of Java is its stronghold. 
On the other Islands iLs numbers 
are increasing. Moslem School Teachers 
employed by the Government carry 
on its Propaganda 


MALAYSIA 
CHURCHES 
PROBLEM: 


Permits from the Dutch Government are necessary for doing evangelistic work 
in their territory; greater freedom under the British flag. 


The Malay race includes more than a hundred different peoples, whose lan- 
guages are as different as those of Europe: also Indians, mostly Tamils, and 
the Chinese using five different dialects. 


Mohammedan fanaticism must be overcome, and the confidence of the people 
secured through Hospitals and other friendly ministrations. 


Missionaries and native preachers must be able to speak the dialect of the people 
to whom they minister. The Chinese congregations demand preachers well 
versed in their languages. 


The transient character of the Indians and Chinese makes it difficult to show an 
increased membership in the Church. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


Four English-speaking churches in the larger school centers. 
Forty church buildings which in many cases are used also for schools. 
120 native preachers assisting 100 missionaries. 


Schools are used as evangelistic centers and most of the teachers do some form 
of personal Christian work. 


Plan already initiated to follow up Christian graduates of Anglo-Chinese schools 
with a view to associating them with local churches. 


PROPOSALS: 


Vigorously press the development of self-supporting churches. 


Set apart for this work missionaries who shall have no other duties 
and who shall specialize on the language. 


Provide a better training for more native preachers in particular dia- 
lects. 


Make a special drive on Mohammedanism establishing a hostel, 
training school, hospital, etc. 


Put an added emphasis on work among the Malays. 


MALAYSIA 


SCHOOLS 
PROBLEM: 


The British Government provides a standard to which all private schools must 
conform, and has built and conducts a few excellent institutions. It also 
gives grants-in-aid for buildings and up-keep, to all our schools that are up 
to standard. 


The Dutch Government permits private schools under certain restrictions, and 
makes grants under certain conditions for native Christian teachers. 


Schools for the Malays largely neglected both by Government and missions. 
There is no support on the field for this kind of work. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


Four large Anglo-Chinese schools of higher grades; 65 primary schools. 
10,000 pupils, 250 teachers, 85 of whom are from the United States. 
Industrial schools are being established in Borneo and Sitiawan. 


Chinese Societies entirely support missionaries as teachers in many centers in 
Sumatra, Java and Banka. 


PROPOSALS: 


Provide land and buildings for 20 schools on six Districts. 

Erect a hostel for Mohammedans in Singapore. 

Establish separate training schools for Malays, Chinese and Indians. 
Provide village schools for Malays in all districts. 

Push educational work in connection with Hospitals. 


Establish a Christian University for Singapore. This isa natural out- 
growth of the large Anglo-Chinese school. Work has already 
begun in freshman classes. This is the opportunity of the 
Church to lead in higher education for sixty million people. A 
proportion of the funds will be raised on the field. 


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WuHeRE SCHOOLS HAVE BLAZED THE Way ror CHURCHES. 
A SELF SUPPORTING EDUCATIONAL Work THAT Enrotts 10,000 PUPILS 


Every Town on the Map has One or More 
Methodist Schools. In a score of other Towns not shown 
our School Work is Established. Names Underscored with 


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MALAYSIA 
HOSPITALS 
PROBLEM: 


The British Government makes general provision for medical services in their 
territory. Comparatively little is done for the Malays. 


There is a great lack of medical attention in Dutch territory. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


A Hospital in Java. 
A doctor in West Borneo. 


PROPOSALS: 


Build a hospital for Mohammedans in Singapore, providing doctor 
and full equipment. 


Erect six hospitals for Java and West Borneo. The Government will 
supply three-fourths of the cost, with salary of one American 
doctor and nurse, and three native nurses. Medicines and other 
equipment will also be given. 


MALAYSIA 
SUMMARY OF WHAT WE HAVE 


1917 
PROPERT Y— 
Churches, chapels, parsonages, homes........................--+--- $149,478 
Educational institutions and presses...................-.-2-+2eeeee- 
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Hospitals and dispensaries 7920 Wiig ee er eee ge \ 
Total property sie ccs aioe aie eon ees cc Pe ete eo ee $567,192 
STAFF— 
Missionaries and foreign workers.....................-+0-05- 50 
Native preachers and workers...................+--++eeeee: 148 
Teachers i407 fc ee eels eo er aes ae ewe em emcee 224 
Total staff, cmap Pe Oe EES tea Coe tee Tee Ae 425 
STUDENTS AND BUPIES 3 ee rae ee eee 8,162 
MEMBERSHIP fio, ots 5 yes aR a ee ne ER ene, era 4,963 


UNBAPTIZED ADHERENTS........ Beare Gerine se Sine eh Sp ceis teens tay Sep 1,649 


CENTENARY SURVEY—PRELIMINARY STATEMENT 


1917 


MEXICO 


EFFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS—Totals for the Five Years 


Un addition to present income) 


Property and Equipment... 
Maintenance............... 


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EVANGELISTIC 
38 Church buildings 
17 parsonages 
Land for same 
Additions, etc 


Maintenance 


3 missionaries 
37 native preachers 


Evangelistic Educational Medical Total From From 
Local Receipts Home Base 
*$412,250 $167,550 $4,400 $584,200 $230,500 $353,700 
178,650 165,200 65,475 409,325 164,860 241,465 


$590,900 $332,750 $69,875 $993,525 $395,360 $595,165 


Analysis of Above Requirements 


EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL 
35 school buildings Additions to present building 
Land for same Equipment, supplies, etc. 


Furniture, etc 


55 native teachers doctor, nurses, 
office workers, etc. 


*Includes $250,000 for new church and headquarters at Mexico, of which $200,000 is expected from sale of old property. 


MEXICO 
GENERAL SURVEY 


Our nearest Foreign Mission Territory 


This country will be a source of ceaseless anxiety until the national thinking and 
spirit be brought to our levels. 


PROBLEM: 


A country devastated by revolution, famine and disease. 
More than 80 per cent. of the people illiterate. 
Superstition and immorality interwoven in the very religious life of the nation. 


Catholicism losing its hold on thinking people and in disfavor with the present 


government because of Roman opposition to the Constitutionalists during 
the Revolution. 


Methodism directly responsible for 3,000,000 people out of the 15,000,000. 


OUR STRATEGY TO DATE: 


Schools, few in number, but centrally located and influential. 


Cne hospital, a center of healing, sanitation and social betterment for a wide area 
with a million people. 


Direct preaching—never more effective than now since the revolution has weak- 
ened the power of the priests. 


A central Publishing House, inadequately equipped to meet the widespread de- 
mand for its printed pages which are eagerly read. 


PROPOSALS: 


Insure Evangelistic expansion to take advantage of the liberalizing 
influences of the Revolution on religious thought of people 
who under the harrow of war are turning to God for help. 
The largest public congregation in the City of Mexico, Protestant 
or Catholic, meets in the Methodist Episcopal Church. 


Restore our property damaged by the Revolutionists. 


Improve our schools in accommodations, equipment and teaching 
force, to provide evangelical leadership for society as a whole. 


Co-operate with other evangelical bodies in establishing a Union 
Theological Seminary in Mexico City. 


Establish an enlarged medical work to help meet the physical 
needs of the country and by example to teach civic betterment. 


Re-make Mexico and Re-assure the United States. 


MEXICO 


CHURCHES 
PROBLEM: 


Roman Catholicism has failed to meet the religious needs of the people. Public 
leadership avowedly irreligious, but friendly to evangelical work. 


The present Government, opposed to the Catholic Church, is favorable to Protest- 
ant influence. 


Revolution, famine, disease and general conditions of uncertainty have made our 
work precarious and in some places caused its discontinuance. Pastors have 
been driven away, imprisoned, robbed and even murdered. Buildings have 
been plundered and burned so as to be almost beyond repair. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


Sixty-four churches and chapels, with 6,833 members and probationers in some 
of the chief cities and towns of Mexico. 


Seventy native preachers and 78 native helpers, working with our force of 13 
missionaries. 


In spite of the losses from the war, many of our churches have held together 
under the leader ship of Mexican pastors. 


PROPOSALS: 


Provide further stiffening for an indigenous work through many 
additional local churches. 


Cover the whole area allotted to us in preaching to three million 
people by increasing the number of evangelists and pastors. 


Meet the evangelistic opportunities created by our educational 
and medical work. 


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invested in Mexico about 2,000,000 in Froperly 
Result: 
Increasing Appreciation and Underslanding of the effort / oS 
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Only through the Lifting Power of the Gospel of Christ can the Mexican Problem be solved. 


MEXICO 
SCHOOLS 


To make a Church influential we must make it intelligent. 


PROBLEM: 


Wide-spread illiteracy, which the Government, even in times of peace, has made 
little effort to overcome. 


Absence of moral and religious instruction in the Government schools. 
Teachers often irreligious and without influence. 


The Mission school one of the best means of disarming prejudice, removing 
suspicion and gaining the good will of the people. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


Sixty-two day schools associated with local churches. 


Many of these closed because of the revolution. Property damaged and people 
scattered. 


Primary, secondary, normal and theological education in the Puebla Institute. 
it had last year 120 boarding pupils, as many as the dormitory will hold. 


Primary, secondary and commercial training in the Queretaro Institute. 
This school, wrecked by revolutionists in November 1914, expects to re-open this 
Fall. 


PROPOSALS: | 


Strengthen existing schools and extend our system of primary 
education for the children of the unprivileged. 


Establish a central Christian university combining all evangelistic 
forces. 


Qpen up a central theological school to provide trained ministerial 
leadership. 


MEXICO 
HOSPITALS 


The ministry of the hospital wins the hearts of the people 


PROBLEM: 


Abounding filth and avoidable disease spreading throughout the country. 


State hospitals and physicians chiefly for the wealthy and these only in large 
cities. 


Only Drug stores and patent medicines for the poorer classes. 


Impoverishment of our local constituency by the war, has increased the need for 
our help. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


One hospital with an exclusive area of 250 by 400 miles. 


One American doctor, six native nurses, ten other workers. Before the revolution 
a force of 42 workers. 


From 40 to 300 patients daily at preaching service. Evangelistic results marked 


PROPOSALS: 


Strengthen the existing plant. 
Develop extension work. 
Study further opportunities. 


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Mexico's great need is an Educational Uplif on a Nation Wide Scale 
Mexico is ready for it. There is wide spread desire for Education. 
Our Schools are full to overflowing They have the approval of the 
Government. If finds were available we could establish popular 


and Crowded Schools ina Thousand Centres in Mexico, They would 
go far toward Builcling a New Nation 


MEXICO 


SUMMARY OF WHAT WE HAVE 
1917 
PROPERT Y— Number Valuation 
Churches, chapels, parsonages, homes...........................2.. $322,660 
Educational institutions and presses........................-..0-000- 205,450 
Hospitals and dispensariesxia 02 Wi edt aie ee tone eon ens ne 75,000 
Total property erg he elec ae tcokeaas te Aad ee REL MON Cae $603,110 
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Missionaries and foreign workers........................0... 20 

Native preachers and workers......................-3.0.0 ee 148 

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STUDENTS AND. PURI ES ae enn eden ei, | ne aan ea 5,091 

MEMBERSHIUR err eae ic Be hash Gap tat. Win ale tee 7,757 


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CENTENARY SURVEY—PRELIMINARY STATEMENT 


1917 


PHILIPPINES 


EFFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS— Totals for the Five Years 


(In addition to present income) 


From Local From 
Evangelistic Educational Medical Total Receipts Home Base 
Property and Equipment... $205,810 $240,500 $25,000 $471,310 $95,910 $375,400 
Maintenance.............. 152,950 5,700 24,000 182,650 35,960 146,690 
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Totalsp pee vest Aa te $358,760 $246,200 $49,000 $653,960 $131,870 $522,090 
Analysis of Above Requirements 
Property and Equipment 
EVANGELISTIC EDUCATIONAL MEDICAL 
75 chapels 100 village schools 2 hospitals 
5 missionary residences 6 dormitories . 
Land for above 1 theological school 
1 Christian university 
Maintenance 
75 native preachers 50 scholarships for theologi- 2 nurses 
8 new missionaries cal school 
2 teachers 


2 doctors 


PHILIPPINES 
GENERAL SURVEY 


The only Foreign Mission field under the American Flag 


Filipinos have advanced a century in twenty years. They now hold all offices except 
those of Governor General and Treasurer. 


Through American tutelage and training, the Islands are rapidly becoming the 
most potent factor in the East. 


Our main missionary drive is evangelistic. 


PROBLEM: 


Two and a half million people are dependent on the Methodist preachers for the 
Gospel. 


New dangers arise as the people realize their new found liberty, enjoy intellectual 
freedom and secure increased prosperity. 


The people come to hear our preachers freely and in large numbers. 


OUR STRATEGY TO DATE: 


Missionaries stationed in seven Capital centers, to supervise the work of twelve 
hundred Filipino preachers. 


Union with other Missions in a theological school requiring better equipment, 
which trains twenty-five men annually. 


A publishing house sending out thousands of Christian pages where all will soon 
be able to read. 


Christian dormitories, at three centers, housing students who pursue courses 
in higher public schools where no religious training is possible. 


PROPOSALS: 


Continue the evangelistic drive which has brought 50,000 Filipinos 
into our churches since the American occupation. 


Send six new missionaries so that every capital center may be 
occupied. 


Provide a better equipped theological school to train and send out 
more preachers. 


Open up two new medical stations. 


Establish Village schools, an industrial school, six dormitories, and a 
Christian College. 


Provide a special fund for publication and distribution of literature. 


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CHURCHES 
PROBLEM: 


Less than fifty per cent of the population may be considered as g00d Romanists. 


The Methodist Church grew rapidly and in sixteen years has an actual member- 
ship of 47,000. Problems of organization and training aleadership are difficut. 


Rome is strengthening herself everywhere and has great resources. She has 
eight Bishops and one Archbishop. She has great schools in Manila and 
throughout the provinces. She clings to methods of the past century but is 
beginning to make changes. Now is our opportunity. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


There are two hundred and fifty chapels with twelve hundred preaching 
places. 


A Sunday School Missionary gives direction to the organization and develop- 
ment of Sunday Schools in every place. 


A beginning has been made in the creation and circulation of a literature in the 
different dialects. 


Fifty per cent of work is self-supporting. 


PROPOSALS: 


Erect seventy-five new chapels. 

Provide for seventy-five additional Filipino preachers. 
Station an American missionary at every provincial capital. 
Provide a fund for publication of necessary literature. 


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ONLY TEN MISSIONARIES AMONG TWO MILLION PEOPLE. 


PHILIPPINES 


SCHOOLS 
PROBLEM: 


The Government has developed a complete modern school system, from primary 
grades to University. No direct Christian teaching is allowed. 


Both American and Filipino teachers are requested to take no part in the exercises 
of the Protestant Church. Lax morals and atheistical tendencies are com- 
mon. 


Three-fifths of total school population not in school. 


This affords an unusual opportunity for the Mission to utilize its two hundred and 
fifty chapels for school purposes. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


A Bible Training School in connection with other Missions. 


Three dormitories for students in Government higher schools. They are now 
crowded, 600 being turned away from the Manila Hostel in one year. These 
dormitories are self-supporting. 


PROPOSALS: 


Co-operate more largely in the theological school, and provide fifty 
scholarships for theological students. 


Build Dormitories in six new centers, which would be filled and 
self-supporting as soon as built. 


Open up Day schools in villages now without public instruction. 
These can be conducted at little expense in our Chapels. 


Provide an Industrial School Farm for destitute children. 
Establish a Christian college. 


THE PHILIPPINES 


3000 ISLANDS-~---8 MILLION PEOPLE 


AN OBvect LESSON IN DemMocRACY 


—-ACHIEVEMENTS— 


Wild Tribes Subdued 

Justice Guaranteed 

Universal Education Provided 

Public Health Guarded 

Good Roads,Bridges and 
Railroads Built 

Per Capita Wealth and 
Production increased 


The CHURCH has not Kept Pace 
with the STATE. 


METHODISM'S Responsibility isin LUZON 
Where Reside one half of the Filip no People. 


PHILIPPINES | 
HOSPITALS 
PROBLEM: 


Outside of Manila, there are no hospitals—either government or mission—in 
the territory for which we are responsible. 


A few modern doctors are scattered through our provinces. Otherwise the people 
are at the mercy of quacks and vendors of nostrums. 


There is no one to perform necessary operations. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


The Missionaries carry small stocks of medicines for emergency cases. 


PROPOSALS: 


Establish a Medical Station—doctor, nurses and hospital—at 
Aparri, Cagayan. (See Map). It would minister to 250,000 
people who are four days’ journey by boat from Manila. 


Establish a Medical Station— doctor, nurses and hospital—at 
Dagupan, Pangasinan. (See Map). This is the largest commer- 
cial center outside of Manila, the center for one million people. 


PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 


SUMMARY OF WHAT WE HAVE 


1917 
PROPERT Y— 
Churches, chapels, parsonages, homes..........................005. $190,074 
Educational institutions and presses................. 0.000000 cece eee \ ey One 
Hospitals and dispensaricsse cee ee ee i ee 
TOCA property © ae sk eee he er ey ey Ney $240,074 
STAFF— 
Missionaries, wives and foreign workers..................... 17 
Native preachers and workers........................0.-0055 1,200 
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MEMBERSHI Bee rece te rite tet enti Cohen... MUU RTE cs aula Lao I 47,420 


UNBAPBTIZED ADHERENTS tees) ors a er ei tec or eins ee 31,969 


CENTENARY SURVEY—PRELIMINARY STATEMENT 


1917 


SOUTH AMERICA 


EFFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS—Totals for the Five Years 


(In addition to present income) 


Property and Equipment... 
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Property and Equipment 
EVANGELISTIC 
64 churches and chapels 
21 churches with schools 
31 parsonages 
4 missionary residences 


Maintenance 


64 national preachers 
24 missionary preachers 


Endowment 


From Local 


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$1,247,265 $1,825,525 $500,000 $3,572,790 $774,750 

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Analysis of Above Requirements 


EDUCATIONAL 


4 seminary and training 
schools 


I seminary. 
3 colleges 
14 high schools 
5 elementary schools 
3 primary schools 
1 agricultural school 


158 national teachers 
126 missionary ‘‘ 
160 primary schools 


$650,000 college 
455,000 high school 
75,000 seminary 


MEDICAL 


4 national deaconesses 
and nurses 


9 missionary deacon- 
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$2,798,040 
966,744 
1,740,280 


$5,505,064 


SOUTH AMERICA 
GENERAL SURVEY 


The largest undeveloped rich area in the world 


_ Nearly three times the size of the United States. 

With only seventy millions of people it has twice the exports and imports of Japan 
and China together with their five hundred miilion people. 

Eleven Republics and three Dependencies. 

Each Republic patterned after the United States. 

Episcopal Methodism in eight Republics working in a total population cf twenty- 
three millions. 

In four of these Republics we are tiie only mission at work. 


PROBLEM: 


THE INTELLECTUALS: 10 per cent of the people almost to a man agnostic or 
openly infidel. 
THE CHOLCES OR MIXED RACES: 60 per cent of the population; mostly 
ignorant, superstitious, fanatical. 
Feebly appealed to and inadequately Boe By the Roman 
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THE INDIANS: 30 per cent of the population; victims of paar deve and ds 


tren 460 years of contact with so-called Christianity worse than they 
were under the Incas. 


OUR STRATEGY TO DATE: 


Educating the Intellectuals: 16 high schools in six Republics; 3,000 enrolled 
pupils. Through these schools we are in contact with from 10,060 to 15,€00 
of the people of the governing classes. 

Evangelizing the masses: We have made a good beginning with 150 Methodist 
preachers, 8,600 members. 

Two publishing houses: ours is frequently the only literature in the homes of our 
members; it is read in intellectual circles and has influence where our mis- 
sionaries have no opportunity to speak. 

No medical work. 


PROPOSALS: 


EDUCATIONAL: Preach a ‘‘knowable Gospel’’ in the rapidly developing countries 
of South America. There is a work to be done here analogous to the pioneer 
preaching of our North American saddle-bag days. 

Strengthen existing institutions. 

Reinforce and properly equip our two theological seminaries. 

Establish two union Bible training schools for women, two a¢gricul- 
tural schools, two union universities—one for each coast. 

MEDICAL: 

Establish a Christian hospital in the capital city of each South 
American Republic where we are at work. 


PUBLISHING HOUSES: 
Enlarge present facilities. 
EVANGELISTIC: 


Reinforce present missionary staff. 
Develop strong group of trained native preachers. 
Prepare intelligent local workers. 


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religious atmosphere 


PROBLEM: 


Roman Catholicism is either the official State religion of the various Republics 
or else is recognized as the dominating religious influence. 


Fully 95 per cent of the male intellectuals deny all allegiance to Romanism and 
other classes are held by superstition and debauehery. 2, 2722 7 


A very large Indian population is accessible to Gospel preaching and the Indian 
children may be gathered by thousands into Christian schools. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


225 preaching places, 150 native preachers and 11,000 members. 


In one Conference on the East coast there are several churches supportirs$ their 
own ministers, supplying in large part their own buildings and proving the 
possibility of rapid development toward self-support and self-propagation. 


On the West coast such churches are fewer, but there are several of them rapidly 
growing up. 


There is a marked evangelical stir on both coasts and new towns are springing up 
over night in countries like Uruguay, Argentine, and Chile—with no Gospel 
preaching. Weare following the frontiers in primitive Methodist fashion. 


PROPOSALS: 


Establish many new churches, putting down deep the roots of a 
self-developing Methodism. 


Raise up better prepared men for pastors, men qualified to teach and 
associate with the intellectuals as well as with the humbler folk. 


Provide a small group of Conference evangelists for the occupation 
of new territory and the creation of new churches. A wide- 
spread evangelistic movement appears to be approaching in 
South America. 


Make possible adequate additions to missionary force, and a 
continent-wide program of Church development. 


SOUTH AMERICA 
SCHOOLS 


We face the danger of creating churches of illiterates in a land 
of Republican Institutions 


PROBLEM: 


75 per cent of illiteracy in the South American Republics where our Church is 
at work. 


The very poor are almost entirely without school privileges. 


State schools are entirely unqualified to produce moral leadership or furnish 
Gospel ministry. 


The religious conditions in Government higher schools are illustrated 
by this fact: OUT OF 5,000 STUDENTS IN THE UNIVERSITY 
OF BUENOS AIRES ONLY FOUR MEN EXPRESSED AN 
INCLINATION TO BELIEVE IN A SUPREME BEING. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


We have 12 high schools, 4 finishing schools for young women, 28 kindergartens, 
primary and intermediate schools with total enrollment of over 3,000. 


PROPOSALS: 


PRIMARY SCHOOLS: 100 for elementary industrial instruction, 
teaching of hygiene and sanitation as well as Gospel principles. 


HIGH SCHOOLS: strengthen our 12 high and 4 finishing schools. 
Plan immediately to double this number. 


DEACONESS AND NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOLS: To prepare 
primary teachers, visiting nurses and district Bible visitors. 


AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: Establish two such colleges, one 
for each coast. 


Scientific training along agricultural lines will be of the greatest 
assistance in creating a self-supporting, self-propagating church. 


UNIVERSITIES: There must be two union evangelical universities, 
one for each coast. 


BIBLE AND THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS: An adequate number of 
these to create a suitable national ministry and to prepare 
Christian workers for minor forms of service. 


SOUTH AMERICA 


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BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS 


EVERY CITY ON THE MAP HAS ONE OR MORE HIGH SCHOOLS. 


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Literacy is Highest in Countries where 
Protestant Missions are Strongest. 


SOUTH AMERICA 
HOSPITALS 


It is estimated that,75 per cent. of all the infants of Chile die 
before they are two years old and even a larger per cent of Indian 
children never reach maturity 


PROBLEM: 


While there are State hospitals in each Republic they are not adequate to care for 
ten per cent of the people. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


Nothing. 


PROPOSALS: 


Establish hospitals, nurses’ training schools and organizations of 
visiting nurses in the capital city of each Republic. 


PUBLISHING HOUSES 


There is an increasing demand for literature proportionate to the increase of pop- 
ular education. 


Much of the general literature now accessible to Latin-American young people is 
so vile that a man would be arrested were he to attempt to bring it into the 
United States even as personal property. 


WHAT WE HAVE: 


Two publishing houses, one on the East and one on the West coast. 


Because of their limited constituency they find it impossible to com- 
pete with the low priced literature now in circulation. 


PROPOSALS: 


Subsidize these two publishing houses so that they can spread broad- 
cast clean, moral and religious literature. 


PANAMA 


GENERAL SURVEY 


““The Cross-roads of the Nations’’ 


PROBLEM: 


Two growing cities, Panama and Colon, along what is likely to become the great- 
est commercial highway on the Globe. 


One of the most cosmopclitan problems in the parish of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. Twenty different nationalities found on a Sunday morning in our 
Church at Panama. 


300,000 Indians outside the Canal Zone, mostly living in stark paganism with no 
Christian effort directed toward them. 


All of Panama, outside the Zone, given us as our denominational responsibility. 


OUR STRATEGY TO DATE: 


Three congregations, an English, a Spanish, and a West Indian, meeting in 
Panama, and one Spanish Scciety in Colon. 


Panama College, offering primary and grammar school instruction in 1916 to 121 
pupils. 

Guachapali School at Panama with 70 pupils from the homes of poor natives and 
West Indians. 


Eight missionaries and eight native helpers, our entire force for the Panama 
Mission. 


PROPOSALS: 


Establish virile congregations whose warm spiritual life may be 
permeating. 


Re-open our English Church in Colon, closed on account of lack 
of workers. 


Provide buildings for both our schools, which now meet in the 
churches. 


Enlarge the work of the Panama College, until it becomes a college 
in fact as well as in name. 


Provide for trained native workers in order to take advantage of the 
remarkable opportunities among the masses of the people. 


Increase our working force, to put our present work upon a more 
substantial basis, and to open new enterprises in strategic places. 


Develop an industrial work with the co-operation of the Panamanian 
Government. 


Enter the untouched territory outside the Canal Zone by establish- 
ing stations at central points from which to work out through 
the country. 


SOUTH AMERICA AND PANAMA 


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1917 
PROPERT Y— Number 
Churches, chapels, parsonages, homes..................... 114 
Educational Institutions and Presses........................ 11 
Hospitals and dispensaries............. 2.0.05. 5 0 eee eee eee 
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Teachers ge Pee oO ae Cate HSE cE cee 104 
Total staf 52:6 an es Sareea TUM es eV oe 445 
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